# AI data is centralized and expensive β€” Perceptron built the decentralized mesh that cuts costs by 92%. Peter Anthony, Co-Founder Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/crypto-coin-show-6582644/ai-data-is-centralized-and-expensive-perceptron-built-the-decentralized-mesh-that-cuts-costs-by-92-peter-anthony-co-founder Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/crypto-coin-show-6582644/ai-data-is-centralized-and-expensive-perceptron-built-the-decentralized-mesh-that-cuts-costs-by-92-peter-anthony-co-founder.md Podcast: [Crypto Coin Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/crypto-coin-show-6582644) Published: 2026-07-20T05:15:02+00:00 Episode link: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ai-data-is-centralized-and-expensive-perceptron-built-the-decentralized-mesh-that-cuts-costs-by-92-peter-anthony-co-founder--72791139 Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72791139/ai_data_is_centralized_and_expensive_perceptron_built_the_decentralized_mesh_that_cuts_costs_by92.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crypto-coin-show-6582644/episodes/ai-data-is-centralized-and-expensive-perceptron-built-the-decentralized-mesh-that-cuts-costs-by-92-peter-anthony-co-founder Duration seconds: 1568 ## Resource Most AI training data flows through centralized providers like Scale AI and Appen β€” expensive, slow, and controlled by a handful of platforms. DECENTRALIZED DATA INFRASTRUCTURE is what Perceptron is building, and it's already serving 700,000+ nodes and generating real revenue.n Peter Anthony, Co-Founder of Perceptron Network, breaks down how a mesh of user-run nodes delivers AI training data at 92% lower cost than legacy providers, why the Data Questing Platform is the next frontier for distributed micro-tasking, and how the $10M AI Data Fund is accelerating teams with free data access. Perceptron has 700K+ nodes, 300K daily active users, and live client contracts β€” and they're about to launch the infrastructure that turns the community into the AI economy's labeling backbone. The decentralized data mesh works because you cut out the middleman; the Data Questing Platform does distributed precision labeling with incentive alignment that Scale AI and Mechanical Turk can't; and the $10M AI Data Fund matters because teams get access with no pre-funding, reshaping how AI training data is sourced. πŸ”— https://perceptrons.xyzn 🐦 https://twitter.com/PerceptronLabsn πŸ””JOIN OUR FREE NEWSLETTER FOR 100X GAINSπŸ””: https://cryptocoinshow.substack.com/subscribe ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crypto-coin-show-6582644/episodes/ai-data-is-centralized-and-expensive-perceptron-built-the-decentralized-mesh-that-cuts-costs-by-92-peter-anthony-co-founder/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/crypto-coin-show-6582644/ai-data-is-centralized-and-expensive-perceptron-built-the-decentralized-mesh-that-cuts-costs-by-92-peter-anthony-co-founder.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.